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the desert has done to me what it has done to many of us desert freaks - it has made me ask questions about myself that I would never otherwise have asked. . . I have not done what one has been supposed to do in deserts ever since the time of Moses - I have not ‘found myself.’ If anything I have lost myself, in the sense that I now feel that I understand myself less than I did before,

Reyner Banham, Scenes in America Deserta [Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Book, 1982], 228.

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Colors and atmospheric effects like these are still to be seen in the deserts, even in the parts that have been so seemingly altered by the works of men,

Reyner Banham, Desert Cantos, [Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1987], 3.

In the vacant luminosity of the arid desert, is a metaphysical emptiness of immeasurable dimension . . . gestures by human kind to sound-out the void . . . manifesting entire cosmography across a myriad of scales,

James Corner and Alex MacLean, Taking Measure Across the American Landscape, [Yale University Press, 1998], 149.

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PLACES OF BUREAUCRACY

PLACES OF SEPARATION

External ConditionsDimensional Constraints

Prepackaged DiagramsRules of Thumb

Biopower

Segregation Repression

DeviancyNot-A-Place PlaceNudityShame

ConfusionPosture

Touch

Environmental Connection ReliefRESTROOM WORLD

Intimacy Mutual Trust

TR

Constant

Public Rest

Euphemism and V

Human Condition

EVACUATIThermodynamics Metabolism

Toilet

Existence

Enigma of the Shared Toilet

[Dis]respect

DEF: Bowel movementsand defecation. Transcebeings - human, animal,

DEF: Passing of energy; energy in asystem is not gained/lost, only transferred.

DEF: Consumption anddischarge of resources.“Powers the body.” a priori.

REQ: Live to eat to live.EXPL: Besides sleep, other impulses are secondary, even sexual reproduction.

is of

EXPL: Moderartifact of bein

described by

EXPL: The individual’s treatment of public spacerelated to dignity, self-respect, and respect for others.

referenced thro

EX: the john, the bathroom, ththe privy, the shitter, the potty,the rest-stop, the water closet

indicates

EX: Lack of respect for the fixture, for the other users, for the self and the body.

institutionalizes

is a process of

accommodate

Yakov Dzhugashvili exemplified by

EXPL: Son of Stalin captive during WWII.Left a ‘foul mess’ in the latrine, andcommitted suicide rather than clean it.

described by

EXPL: Oversimplifiedutilitarian space.

Device

Morphological Cha

Clyfford Still Museum Restroom Cheever Hall

is a

DEF: Has an end controlled by tight functionalconstraints.

has created

exemplified by

EXPL: Built in 1974 at $ethic.

EXPL: Built in 2011 at $1017.54/sf in a tactile and visual material ethic.

is the same as

has limited

indicates

constrained by

EXPL: Intellectual and monetary.

ANSI A117.1 through

EXPL: Standard adopted legallyto address differences inphysiology and ability.

have become

flexed by

EX: Occupancy type, how may occupants, code related administrative numbers, etc.

controlled by

EX: Wheelchair radius influences closeness ofwalls and partitions, doors, and so forth.

through

solved with

EXPL: Graphics Standards and handbooksDEF: Forms or concepts alreadysolved requiring very little figuring.Easily implemented.

Accessbility

EXPL: Western moral imperativeto create equal access forpublic facilities.

to placate

conceived by

EXPL: Power through self-discipline, self-surveillance,and subjugation Dispersed/diffuse/spread beyonda centralized control.

createsbased on

through

EXPL: Initially based onquestions of decency formales and females.

EXPL: Of the sexes. Reductionist bc/oversimplifiespeople without distinction.

causesOversimplification

EXPL: No distinction between otherqualities of habit such as cleanliness,LGBTQ, sex diff. of guardian/charge, etc.

due to

EXPL: An individual’s existence cannotbe measured against society’s presentrules and preconceptions.MET: A Blackhole of reality.

EXPL: Not-normalbehavior.

based onBehavior

EXPL: Actions withina place where anindividual is not responsible to society.

surrounding

EX: Self-consciousnessresulting fromheightened awarenessof the body.

EX: Exhibitionism,voyeurism.

causes

related to

EXPL: Squat versussit. Physiology.

EXPL: Requiretouch to existversus aversionfrom fear and disgust.

EXPL: ‘Flush and Forget’ free from reality of usage.

EXPL: Quantitative description

EXPL: Qualitative description

because of

EXPL: Separation ofourselves from ourselves and the context of ourexistence.

forced by

creates

regulated by

EXPL: Release pressures causby digestion, another self-mainprocesses of thbody.

opens up possibilities for

inform

acts as a

informing the

addresses

EXPL: A restroom in Madison, Wisconsin, at theUniversity of Wisconsin.

created

EXPL: Participatory;overall sense of care and comfort by the occupants basedon the same by acentral individual.

EXPL: Part of a world outsidethe restroom based on carein construction and maintenance.EX: “Eyes of the street” bynatural proprietors andrecurrent usage by individuals.

EXPL: A

counters

root

root

precedent

descriptive phenomena

descriptive phenomena

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OfferingsTRENTON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER BATH HOUSE

TECHNOLOGY AS SAVIOR Prosthetic Relationships

Hydraulic Flush

Consumer Product

CesspoolComposted

Night Soils

Miasma Theory of DiseaseOdor

Commodification Stratification

Physical Exclusion

Modernism

Function

Necessity of Use

Bodily Evil

Domestic Bathroomstroom

King Francois I

Unknowingness of Priviledge

Commoner16th Century French Economy

Odorous Shit Odorous Waste

Regulation

DISGUSTPrivatization of Waste

issues

Edict of 1539

EXPL: French monarch. “God’s”extension on Earth.

EXPL: The city of Paris is disgusting. Discusses the conditions of the city.

indicates

EXPL: Socio-economic hierarchies which show that theaffluent do not recognize [naivety] the realities of contemporary life.

states

“it provokes great horror and greater displeasure in all valient persons of substance,” [LaPorte, 4].

towards representative of

of

involves

Putrefaction

EXPL: Tied to agriculture and subsidiaries. Cultivation of landand deriving a saleable product beyond subsistence level.EX: Tanneries, livestock, fishing, agricultural crops, etc.

DEF: Decay with foul smell

EXPL: Cleaning of hides, detritusfrom crop processing, etc.

EXPL: Animal and humanexcrement.

disposed of in

Street

EXPL: Acceptablefor disposal of wastes in urbancondition.

initiates

EXPL: Rules to improve the city’s smell. Begins to deal with the sanitation issue.

initiates

reinforces

EXPL: Making excrement a private matterof the household; remove from public realm.

becomes

EXPL: Decomposition inconnection with climatebreaks down wastes.

into

exemplified by

DEF: Composted wastes that are collected for industrious usages.

DEF: Remove/transport waste viawater. First invented in 1592.EXPL: Became standard adoptedconcept for sanitation in Europeancities by the 1800s.

became

EXPL: Patented inventions in England.Became purchasable as the toilet.

EXPL: Acceptable way ofdisposal and breakdownof wastes in rural condition.

led to

influenced

reactedagainst

DEF: Proposed the spreading of disease was caused by the exchange of gases.EXPL: 1600s Enlightenment in Europe.

Public Health Act of 1848

EXPL: Mandated private residences be equippedwith mechanism for waste disposal - toilet, privy, ashpit.

scandalizes

confines

EXPL: Bodily andenvironmentalodors.

institutionalizes

led to

EXPL: To be had, purchased, owned.

created

EXPL: Socio-economic divisions within the population. The ability to have [water, fixture, etc].

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emerged from

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EXPL: Evolving fromthe idea of it being anatural, emergent design.

mandated

became

EXPL: Evolved into a hedonistic space based on taste, fantasy, and narcissim.

ed as purely

dictated

EXPL: Embraced contemporarytechnology and industries.

reinteration of

to containconsidered

not from

EXPL: The contemporary, sanitarytechnology to deliver cleanliness.

Normative Users

EXPL: Normative users as physicallyfit, young males.

for

decided

led to

EXPL: The disabled, the elderly, children,personalities, and so forth.

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because of

: A restroom and changing facility in Trenton, New Jersey, designed by Louis I. Kahn and Anne Tyng.

addresses

EXPL: Elements that extendexperience beyond thenecessary. That are forthe occupants in acapacity not quantifiable.EX: Pacing elements.

through

informs generates a

EXPL: Third element between ourselves andexperience of the world. Removes levels of reality.

EXPL: Technology is always changing, evolving, progressing, andmutating. Concepts stay the same, but the means change.

enduring through

EX: Composting toilet.EXPL: What once was, is nowsomething else, which will againbe what it was before.

root

precedent

precedent

addresses

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Societal TrajectoryCultural Memory

Orienteering Mechanism

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Making

Intention

The Aesthetics of Thrift

Registration

Time

Soft Rock-Hard

Evergreen

Closeness

Direct Esthetic Experiences of the Real

Fantasy

Presence

Significance

Materiality

Emptiness 1

Emptiness 2

Place

Activation

PathsDomains

is a

Practice

resulting from

EXPL: Ideas, culture, and so forth informed by technology, ideology, economics, taste, and so on. Dynamic. Evolving.

is thecomposed of

History

Tradition

Memory

is an

within the

both

NaturalConstructed

through

EXPL: Access of knowledgefounded on constraints, rules,to realize intention.

realizes

REQ: The ability to actagainst necessity

described through

EXPL: Active, creative judgment of utility andgoodness to define the environment withcare and precision

Principles

AKA: Rules, Constraints,Framework

EXPL: Senusal Apprehensionof elements deemedsignificant

composed of

EXPL: Immediately temporal/dynamicEX: Vegetation, Sky

EXPL: Immutable temporalEX: Rock, Terrain

EXPL: Intersection of immediateand immutableEX: Topiary, lawn

to understand

defined by

forms

through

creates

to

SELFfor the

within the

creates

to the

excess destroys

EXPL: The indifference of the physical environment to you.

EXPL: Taughtness, attentiveness,assertiveness

EXPL: Formation of a bondbetween designer, owner,buider, user, and the physical

EXPL: PalpabilityEX: Temperature, weight,inertia, inherent strength

EXPL: Offering opportunityrather than giving direction

EXPL: Perpetual incompleteness through thepresence of absence

composed of

most notably

counters

defined bycreate

requires

forms

acts as an

EXPL: Action-Reactionrelationship; phenomenaEX: Brick wall in January

I.E.: Disciplined discovery, exporation, learning, etc.

layer

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